crème

• creme

Borrowed from French crème.

crème (plural crèmes)

1. (cooking) A very sugary, fluffy white cream derivative.
2. (cosmetics) Cream

• c'mere, merce

• (colloquial) kreem

Borrowed from French crème.

• IPA^(key): /krɛm/, /krɛːm/

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crème f (plural crèmes, diminutive crèmepje n)

1. cream (color)
2. (colloquial) ice cream
3. cream (medicament)

From Old French cresme, from Late Latin crama, Transalpine Gaulish word influenced by Latin chrisma (modern French chrême), from Ancient Greek χρῖσμα (khrîsma).

• IPA^(key): /kʁɛm/

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• Rhymes: -ɛm
• Homophones: chrême, chrêmes, crèment, crèmes
• Hyphenation: crème

crème (invariable)

1. cream (color)

crème f (plural crèmes)

1. cream
2. (France, colloquial) café crème
3. (Louisiana) ice cream

• laitage

• chantilly

• Dutch: crème
• English: crème, creme, cream
• German: Creme
• Russian: крем (krem)
• Swedish: kräm

crème

1. first-person singular present indicative of crémer
2. third-person singular present indicative of crémer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of crémer
4. second-person singular imperative of crémer

• “crème” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

crème

1. First-person singular present of crèmen.
2. First-person singular subjunctive I of crèmen.
3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of crèmen.
4. Imperative singular of crèmen.

From Old French cresme, from Late Latin crāmum, a blend of Gaulish *crama and Late Latin chrisma (“ointment”).

crème f (plural crèmes)

1. (Jersey) cream

• êcrémer (“to skim”)